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Don’t Waste Your Fresh Tomatoes: A Guide to the Perfect Canned Tomato for Pasta Sauce
September is that wonderful, confusing "limbo" month. It’s officially autumn, but the last gasp of summer produce is still lingering at the farmers' market. You see bins of beautiful, ripe, fresh slicing tomatoes and think: "I’m going to make the perfect sauce."
My advice? Stop right there.
Hospitality Is Ministry, Not Performance
I used to think hospitality meant getting everything right.
The table set just so. The food perfectly timed. Nothing burned, nothing forgotten, nothing out of place before the first guest walked through the door.